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The cornerstone of our new plan is to offer an 8-week vestibule program called Steps to Success for new basic literacy students, focused on goal setting, crucial digital skills, and the development of independent learning strategies. We intend to implement Steps to Success statewide as a way to rebuild our capacity to serve basic literacy students. Ultimately, we believe this will allow us to serve many more students and increase their retention in the program by improving their learning experience.  \nKeywords: basic literacy, adult basic education, tutor training  \nLiteracy NJ is a statewide network of volunteer-based adult literacy programs. Most serve a combination of ESOL, basic literacy, and high school equivalency students. We are the statewide organization within this network and provide direct service in 12 of New Jersey’s 21 counties as well as partnering with affiliate programs throughout the others. We consider basic literacy students to be those whose primary goals are to improve their reading and writing and who are not ready to prepare for a high school diploma or who may already have one. Originally formed in 1979 with a mission specifically to serve these students and with a current student prioritization policy that brings them to the top of our waiting lists, our organization has nonetheless found itself in recent years with a diminished capacity to do this work.  \nThe decline in basic literacy students happened gradually over many years and mirrors the national trend of decreased participation in federally funded adult literacy, particularly in the adult basic education student population (Pickard, 2022) . For over 10 years leading up to the pandemic, basic literacy instruction had been a small percentage of our total statewide student population, typically between 20-25% . Our number of basic literacy students declined even more significantly between 2017 and 2019, by then accounting for only about 14% of our statewide services. After the pandemic  \nbegan, and services temporarily became virtual, all of our student numbers declined, but whereas our ESOL student numbers shrunk by 25%, we lost almost 50% of our already small basic literacy student population.  \nChallenge  \nOur volunteer-based programs are well-suited to help basic literacy students succeed. Like many volunteerbased programs, we have flexible schedules, small group sizes, and use student goals to inform instruction. In most communities there are no other programs to which we can refer basic literacy students, and we are typically the referral destination for our partner agencies. Because our basic literacy student population has decreased, however, we have had a smaller corps of tutors trained to help them, and therefore fewer spaces available for new basic literacy students. As this trend continued, we trained fewer basic literacy tutors, and eventually incorporated fewer basic literacy tutoring strategies in our training for new volunteers.  \nThis downward cycle gained momentum in a funding climate that increasingly creates pressure to produce short-term student gains and places a high value on standardized test scores and employment-related  \n[Correspondence: jtomkins@literacynj.org](Correspondence: jtomkins@literacynj.org) 23  \noutcomes. By focusing our efforts on the short-term outcomes required to maintain funding, we became less adept at serving students who both need the most time in the program and face the greatest external barriers to participation. We were training fewer tutors to do this work and becoming an organization less and less prepared to do it well.  \nAlthough our diminished capacity may be related to ","cbCaibm9rr7l0zZb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibm9rr7l0zZb","pdf",83550,"English","# Abstract\n# Challenge\n## Volunteer-based capacity constraints\n# Steps to Success\n## Program structure and goals\n## Curriculum and delivery","[{\"question\":\"What problem is Literacy NJ trying to address?\",\"answer\":\"Literacy NJ reports a sustained decline in basic literacy students and, as a result, a reduced pool of trained tutors and fewer available spaces for new basic literacy learners.\"},{\"question\":\"What is Steps to Success and who is it for?\",\"answer\":\"Steps to Success is an 8-week vestibule program for new basic literacy students, designed to build a foundation for further teaching and learning while supporting tutors and learners.\"},{\"question\":\"What teaching areas does the program focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The program focuses on goal setting, crucial digital skills, and development of independent learning strategies that students can use with or without a tutor.\"}]","Reinventing a Basic Literacy Program - adult literacy education winter 2024 | PDF",1792066902,13]